Single-bead molding or welt.



.VANDERSL-ICE. SINGLE BEAD MOLDINGYOB WELT.

APPLICATION FILED APR-8. 191s.

Patented 00$. 29, 1918.

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.N 1 s I v I I GEORGE HAMILTON VAND ERSLICE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,ASSIGNOR To ZENITE 1VIETAL.COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ACORPORATION OF INDIANA.

SINGLE-BEA!) MOLDING on WELT.

Application filed April 8, 1918. Serial No.227, 295.

To all whom it may concern .1

residing at Indianapolis,

Marion arid State of Indiana, have invented- Be it known that I,GEoncnHAMIL'roN VANDERSLICE, a'citizen'of'the United States, inthe.c0unty of a new and useful Single-Bead Molding or Welt, of which thefol owing is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to pro-' Vide a flexible single beadmolding or welt ance, for use on automobile and other upholstery; andone which may be attached by concealed tacks which may nevertheless bedriven through the molding after it is completed and when it is beingapplied, which may be applied with ease by the workman, even aroundcorners, and when applied holds itself firmly in shape, and which whenin position sheds, water so as to prevent deterioration of the materialof the stitching, tacks.

' The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention. Figure 1 is aperspective view of afragment of an automobile, showing my improvedmolding-applied to the upper edge of the upholstery of the seat back;Figs. 2 and 3, are perspective views of two slightly diiferent'forms ofmy improved molding; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the form of vmolding shown-in Fig. 2, showing it someattaching tacks,

' tack and in dotted lines the bead in its nor-' and the common edgewhat curved; and Fig. 5 is verse section through" the shown in Fig. .3,in the plane of one of the showing in full lines the bead bent back topermit the driving of the mal position concealing the tack.

The molding'consists primarily of a base;

strip 10 and asingle superposed bea'd strip 11, the latter overlyingface pf the base strip 10 and being formed at one edge with a head 12which extendslonglitudinally along the base strip 10, preferably at anintermediate point of the width of such I base strip though notnecessarily along the middle line thereof. The base strip and bead stripare formed leather, fa bric, or other flexible sheet material, and arestitched together along the line 13 where they overlie, between the bead12 of the base strip 10 and bead str1p 11. By this construction the head12 maybe raised by' folding back Specification of Letters Patent.

bead

'- easily by the workman,

readily get his thumb under the head to lift by the workman,

of the molding, rotting and rusting of the attaching an enlargedtransform ofmolding one side of the upperstitches together the byfolding the bead of leather, imitation Patented Oct. 2 9, 191-8.

ing 1.3 (as shown in full lines in Fig. 4), thus exposing the upper faceof the base strip 10 beneath it; and the attaching tacks.

14.- may then be driven through such exposed portion of the base strip,and the lifted strip may be swung back to its normal position (shown indotted lines in Fig. 4) so that it overliesthe heads of the attachingtacks 14 and conceals andprotects them.

This lifting of the bead 12 may bedone very 1 'because he can it evenwhen working around sharp corners, and whether the corners are concaveor convex, and indeed when working around these corners the bead may hemade to hold itself lifted until positively folded back into place himto drive the attaching tacks. --However, when the head 12 is folded backto its normal position it holds itself firmly in such position, coveringand concealing the tacks.

'thusmaking ,it easier for Preferably the base strip 10 and the beadstrip 11 are formed of a single piece of material, folded over to formthe edge 15 joiningthe two strips; and each strip is formed of twolayers folded from the same single piece of material to form the otherfolded edge 16 of the base strip and the head 12 respectively, with theraw edges-17 folded on the inside within the folded edge 15 between suchedge and the stitching 13 so that such raw edges are entirely concealedand the stitching 13 passes through both layers of both strips. Thus thefinished molding presents no visible-raw edges. In the wider moldings, Iprefer to mean additional line i of stitching near the edge 16, as shownin Fig. 2. The bead strip 11 may or may not overlie this extra line ofstitching 18, as desired., This additional stitching 18' merely twolayers of the base strip 10, and ordinarily is not used in the a Thehead 12 is formed edge of the material of the bead strip around acylindrical core '19, as of paper cord.

narrower moldings.

,Wh'en this' molding is' used, as around the upper edge of the seat back20 of an auto.- mobile 21of which a fragment is shown in Fig. 1, suchmolding may becurved as de sired, on account of the flexibility of thematerial composing it, and may be fastened in the desired place bydriving in the tacks strip 11 with its bead 12 will act as a water 7 14.The bead 12 is lifted to permit the driving in of the tacks and is thenswung back to normal position to cover and conceal the heads of thetacks. The molding is applied with the edge 15 uppermost, so that thebead ing appearance, with no visible attaching means and no visible rawedges.

I claim as my invention:

1. An' upholstery mo ding, comprising a single strip of flexiblematerial folded to form a base strip and a single bead strip overlyingone face of said base strip with the fold forming their common edge,said 1 bead strip being formed with a longitudinal bead extending alongan intermediate longitudinal line of the base strip, and the base stripand bead strip belng stitched together I between said folded edge andsaid bead.

2. An upholstery molding, comprising a slngle strip of flexiblematerialfolded to form a base strip and a single superposed .bead stripoverlying one face of the base strip with the fold forming their commonedge, each of said strips comprising two layers folded from the samestrip with the layer having the raw edge forming the face toward theother strip so that the raw the two strips being stitched togetherthrough'bbth layers-of both strips on a line between said head and thefold at the common edge ofthe two strips.

3. An upholstery. molding, comprising a single strip of flexiblematerial folded to form a base strip and a single superposed stripoverlying one face of the base strip with the fold forming theirQommon'edge, each of said strips comprising two layers folded from thesame strip with the layer having the raw edge forming the face towardthe other strip-so that the raw edges are concealed within the foldbetween the two strips, the two strips being stitched together throughboth'layers of both strips on an intermediate line between the edges ofthe strips so that the parts of said strips on the opposite side of saidstitching from'such common folded edge may be separated.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis,Indiana, this fourth day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred andeighteen.

GEORGE HAMILTON VANDERSLIGE.

